Booker T. Washington: “There are but two directions in this life in which you can grow; backward or forward.”

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.